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Chris Knott Insurance

If your car insurance is due within the next 30 days, please don't forget to give our club sponsors, Chris Knott Insurance, a call. They have just confirmed a record week in terms of the amount of business they have done through the forums so it's certainly worth a call. In 2008, the average recorded saving for their new customers was 15.5% off the BEST quote they'd had!

Please phone them on 0800 917 2274 or 01424 200477 and quote the club name and/or reference number (906 - VECTRA-C)

For further details, please refer to Tim's thread in the Insurance Section. http://www.vectra-c.com/forum/showthread.php?t=73959

(He doesn't do the quotes by the way, there is a specialist team for this!).

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How much is your car worth?

If you are thinking of changing your car and you found a nice one and its valued at £12,000. Only to be in shock how much you need to pay on top for that car, if you owned yours a few years and and spent thousand's modifying it.

Brought my car in February 2008, cost me £11,000 for a months old car 11k on the clock, now July 2012, just over four years of ownership done 84,000 to date, and is part ex valued at £2500 - £3000 . Is it worth modifying the car, only to find out you are going sell it few years time and lose value on that as well hmmm.

I think its just something that is part and partial of car ownership. I will still modify my cars even though i know i will never get the money back when i sell it. At least i get the enjoyment out of it if nothing else

I thought modding and personalising was all part of the fun, I havnt done much to my Sig as I havnt had it long but my old 2000 TL1000R m'bike has had approx 3k spent on it since I bought it and its worth approx £2500 max.

I bought the car new for £22k back in 2004 and in the last two years have spent £10k on modifications (not including servicing or replacement standard parts) and it's worth about £2500 or so to sell. It's safe to say I don't look on my car as an "investment opportunity".

"Doing a good job here is like wetting your pants in a dark suit, you get a warm feeling but nobody else notices"

I bought the car new for £22k back in 2004 and in the last two years have spent £10k on modifications (not including servicing or replacement standard parts) and it's worth about £2500 or so to sell. It's safe to say I don't look on my car as an "investment opportunity".

Yeah Ian I remembered how much you spent on yours, with that price could of got a nice bmw lol.

Yeah Ian I remembered how much you spent on yours, with that price could of got a nice bmw lol.

Meh - I'd need to spend upwards of 50 grand to get a BMW I'd actually want. My new Insignia was 32 grand list price but I shall have it for the 6 or 7 years it'll take me to use up the 100K warranty on it so it does have it's advantages. I can't see myself spending too much on mods as they'll invalidate the warranty in a lot of aspects, and usually lower the value even more...